The Original Building of Augusta College The First Established Methodist College in the World, Chartered by the Kentucky Legislature, 12-7-1822; this building erected 1825, burned down in 1856.	This item about the college appeared in the Boston Recorder and Telegraph of Jan. 20, 1826.
The College sat in the block between Bracken and Frankfort Streets, and Third and Water (Riverside) Streets

Augusta Basketball  Team
 

1897	1910	1947

High School, Augusta	Augusta High School	Public School, Augusta
(The 1937 Flood came to the center of the first floor windows)

Augusta School Burns, c. 1906

Augusta High School, 1947

A brief look at the history of Augusta Schools is here.

The Augusta Female College, or, after 1863, the Augusta
Male and Female College.  The building was erected in the 1850's.

Augusta College Students???
This image is from the Bracken County Historical Society, and is among
a lot of other old Augusta items.  It's presumed to be Augusta.  If you can
 identify it for sure, please let us know.  You can email us here.

Dormitory, First Methodist College
 in the World, Augusta, Kentucky

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